Rendimension Blog
Insights & Articles
Perspectives on architectural visualization, pre-construction decisions, and the business of 3D rendering.
Narrated vs Silent 3D Walkthroughs
Most walkthroughs that were given a voiceover did not need one. A few would fail without it.
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How to Storyboard a 3D Walkthrough
The storyboard is where a walkthrough becomes cheap to change. After it, everything costs more.
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360 Virtual Tours for Property Managers
For a property manager the tour is a record, not an advertisement.
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360 Virtual Tour Pricing Explained
Two quotes for the same building can differ widely and both be honest.
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What Hotspots and Navigation a 360 Tour Needs
Most tours fail not because the panoramas are bad but because nobody knows where they are.
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Rendered vs Photographed 360 Virtual Tours
If the space exists, photograph it. The interesting cases are the ones where it half exists.
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How to Embed a 360 Virtual Tour on Your Website
Most embed problems are placement and loading, not code.
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How to Brief a 360 Virtual Tour Project
A good brief for a tour is mostly a list of positions and a sentence about who it is for.
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3D Modeling vs 3D Rendering: What You Are Paying For
The difference between building the 3D model and computing the image, why studios quote the two stages separately, which one drives your schedule, and what changes cost once the ge...
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Cloud Rendering vs a Rendering Studio: What to Buy
A render farm sells computing time on a scene you already built. A studio builds the scene and takes responsibility for the image. Which one you need, when cloud rendering saves mo...
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Architectural Scale Models vs 3D Visualization
A scale model is an object people gather around. 3D visualization is content that travels, updates and shows interiors. Where each one is genuinely stronger, how their costs behave...
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SketchUp, Revit and AutoCAD Files for 3D Rendering
SketchUp, Revit and AutoCAD files each hand a rendering studio something different. What to send, what to purge, and what happens when the model is incomplete.
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